Bruce Reid

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1946 –

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Who is Bruce Reid?

Bruce Malcolm Reid is the current club doctor of the Essendon Football Club and a former Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League.

Reid, who came from North Balwyn Methodists, played two senior games for Hawthorn in the 1966 VFL season and made one further appearance the following year.

He was a member of Preston's 1968 and 1969 Victorian Football Association premiership teams.

Having graduated from university with a medical degree while at Preston, he worked as a club doctor with Richmond from 1976 to 1979. One of the players at Richmond during that time was Kevin Sheedy, who had recently been appointed coach of Essendon when Reid joined the club in 1982. Since then he has been the Senior Medical Officer for Essendon.

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Born
Apr 4, 1946

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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